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Sri Lanka's Faustian bargain with Pakistan:  Exit LTTE, enter ISI Not surprisingly, the Easter blasts that killed hundreds in Sri Lanka have revealed a Pakistani connection. Rakesh Krishnan    New Delhi     Last Updated: April 22, 2019  | 20:28 IST Wherever there is a terror attack, chances are you will find Pakistani fingerprints all over the place. From Times Square in New York to the streets of Kabul and of course across India, virtually every bombing can be traced back to the terror factories located in Peshawar, Bahawalpur or Karachi. Not surprisingly, the Easter blasts that killed hundreds in Sri Lanka have revealed a Pakistani connection. Among the suicide bombers was Zahran Hashim, an Islamist extremist imam, who is believed to have visited Pakistan in 2018. Hashim was a demagogue for the National Thowheeth Jamaath, which was known in Sri Lanka for vandalising Buddhist statues, but has the larger aim of spr...

‘Mea culpa’: Rajdeep Sardesai finally admits Modi wasn’t responsible for 2002 and that media sensationalised the riots One is bound to wonder then that if Rajdeep agrees now that Modi had no role to play in the riots and that the media sensationalised the riots, was he deliberately fanning the sensationalism further since 2002 up until recently?   OPINDIA STAFF APRIL 26, 2019 In an interview with author-journalist Manu Joseph, Rajdeep Sardesai, the  Michelangelo of Indian journalism , who made a career out of demonising Narendra Modi for Gujarat riots seems to have finally found some remorse for his relentless campaign against Prime Minister Modi for the unfortunate incidents that followed after the train burning at Godhra that left Hindus dead. Responding to a question asking whether Narendra Modi the then Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2002 was in any way responsible for the incident, Rajdeep Sardesai admitted that he personally believed that Modi was not respons...

1971 STORY From an officer.... During 1971 war my Bn (3 Grenadiers) fought the Battle of Jarpal. 3 Grenadiers captured Jarpal which was defended by 35 FF. In this battle 3 Grenadiers was awarded a PVC (to then Maj Hoshiyar Singh), a MVC (then CO, Lt Col V P Airy), 4 VrCs and host of other awards. Incidentally Kheterpal was also awarded PVC in the same battle. 35 FF launched seven counter attacks on 3 Grenadiers. The last one was led by their CO, Lt Col Mohd Akram Raza. During the counter attack he was hit by a MMG burst on the face and succumbed to his injuries. Lt Col Airy, CO 3 Grenadiers wrote his citation and the offr was posthumously awarded Hilal-e-Jurat (I think eqvt of our MVC). Later when 3 Grenadiers was in Ethiopia one of the offrs of 35 FF was also in the msn. He was invited to all the functions to mark our battle honour day, in which his bn was decimated ( 8 offrs, incl CO and over 350 other rks KIA). I must say it was to the credit of the Pakistani offr ...

Air passengers at a growing number of U.S. airports will no longer need to remove electronics, liquids, and other items from their carry-on luggage at security checkpoints as the Transportation Security Administration rolls out new technology. The TSA took a major step in a broader plan to revamp its overall screening process with faster, more advanced technology when it signed a contract Thursday for hundreds of new carry-on baggage screening machines, Administrator David Pekoske said on a press call Friday. The agency has tested the new technology at more than a dozen airports since 2017, along with the relaxed protocols that allow passengers to leave items such as laptops and toiletries inside their luggage. The rollout of the computed tomography, or CT, machines will begin this summer, Pekoske said. The $97 million contract will buy 300 machines, but the list of airports receiving them has yet to be made final, Pekoske said. A Transportation Security Admin...

Trials of new biometric systems are launching and continuing at several airports around the world, as airports and airlines seek to increase automation to speed up identification processes. SITA  Smart Path has been deployed for a trial of using facial recognition instead of a boarding pass for security processing at Athens International Airport, the company announced. The airport, Greece’s largest, is the first in Europe to use biometric identity at security, according to the announcement. “Passengers really appreciate the ease of using SITA’s Smart Path trial,” says Alexandros Ziomas, acting director of Athens International Airport’s IT&T Business Unit. “It has reduced the time taken to check in and verify passenger identity at security to only a few seconds. It will solve a key challenge for us by ensuring a steady flow of passengers to the security area. This is a service we would like to extend to other steps in the journey over time.” The biometric service is be...

राफेल का धमाका : राफेल सौदे से कांग्रेस को जितना कमीशन मिलने वाला था, उससे भी अधिक रकम चीन से कांग्रेस ने राफेल नहीं खरीदने के नाम पर डकार ली, और ऐ.के.ऐन्टोनी से बयान दिलवा दिया कि भारत के पास फंड नहीं है, खरीद नहीं सकते। अब मोदी जी के शासन में सौदा हो गया है, तब चीन ने मियां राहुल को तलब किया। राहुल ने भारत में चीनी दूतावास में जाकर राफेल के बारे में सफ़ाई दी। मगर चीनी अधिकारी संतुष्ट नहीं हुए, और वे बोले "राहुल बाबा, राफेल के मामलों में तुम चीन जाकर बात कर लो, अन्यथा खाया माल वापस कर दो!" अब राहुल दूतावास से बाहर आकर बोला कि "हम डोकलाम के विषय पर बात करने गए थे!" इस मूर्ख पप्पू ने भारत के लोगों को पप्पू बना दिया। अब चीन के बुलावे पर चीन जाये तो जाये कैसे? तब युक्ति निकाली गई कि राहुल बाबा मानसरोवर यात्रा चीन के रास्ते जाएगा। मगर सिर्फ चीन जाकर राफेल नहीं खरीदने का कमीशन जो पप्पू ने खाया था, उसके सामने चीन ने दो शर्तें रखीं: एक, मोदी के शासन में खरीदा सौदा जैसे भी हो, कैंसल करवाओ, या उसमें क्या-क्या उपकरण लगवाए जा रहे हैं, हमें बताओ। दूसरा, अगर ये नहीं कर ...

Defence minister with vision needed The recent bizarre defence of the MoD against denial of Non-Functional Upgradation to the armed forces on the pretext of palatial houses, army schools and other facilities including Military Service Pay has enhanced the divide between the MoD and the armed forces expected to operate under them. Harsha Kakar | New Delhi | March 26, 2019 12:10 am      Ministry of Defence, Government of India. (Image: Facebook/@DefenceMinIndia) In his eulogy to Manohar Parrikar, Nitin Gokhale writes of a conversation with him soon after he took over as the defence minister. Parrikar stated, “In these two-three months that I have been here (MoD), the most striking aspect I noticed is the all-pervasive atmosphere of suspicion. Everyone is looking over his or her own shoulder. There is very little coordination; the overwhelming tendency is to first say ‘no’ to everything.” It was this that he had tried to overcome. These words are the ...